WRITING
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
A faerie bonding herself to gain her mother’s attention; a siren ruining the lives of men with her paralyzing voice and sensual movements; a troll riddled with pain, forced to endure the prodding of cruel and invasive doctors; a fallen angel...
Devastatingly alluring, darkly mystical, and eerily otherworldly, an aura of fervor saturates the striking images of photographer Ren Picco-Freeman and dancer Savannah Dunn in their collections Smokeface and Mourning Replica.
In this incarnation, she appears as the epitome of beauty, red-painted lips, stylized hair, porcelain skin, small smile, and bright eyes. In another incarnation, we encounter her naked, vulnerable, splayed as the object of men’s desires...
A fascination with dystopian futures has oddly stood the test of time, from George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games..
Memory, according to Foucault, is a “ritual of power” - selecting what is remembered, what is forgotten, what is memorialized, and what is lost. It is a continuous narrative constructed by past experiences, dreams, hopes, and imagination.
When we dine alone, we become an alluring, mysterious, interesting, and perhaps even lonely character in a passing stranger’s imagination.
